The Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials 2009
Which commercials scored touchdowns and which fumbled? TIME TV critic James Poniewozik grades the players
An animated scarecrow and the song "If I Only Had a Brain" from The Wizard of Oz illustrate, supposedly, GE's "Smart Grid" technology for distributing electricity. How exactly, I couldn't tell you; the commercial apparently expects us to trust the Wizard on that one.
Grade: B-
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